[Food] Scan and Go Shopping.

[WATFORD zero]

I've seen the hand-held scanners and people scanning stuff before putting it in there bags at the Asda Marina Supermarket, but thought it looked a bit too technical for me. I know someone who works in the shop, and she said to me that once you give it a go, you're a scanner for life!
I thought, sod it - I'll be brave and give it a go. Life-changing! Today being a Bank Holiday, and I was there mid-day, there were quite a few people there.
After bleeping my way through the aisles, putting my goods in my bags, I walked past queues of people at the tills and self check-outs, to a deserted dedicated Self-Scan check-out area. Scanned the QR code on the till, scanned the bar code which then appeared on the hand-scanner, paid the amount via the contactless method, and that was me done.
No "Unknown item in the bagging area", or other time consuming obstacles at the self checkout, no queueing behind old ladies that smell like the Goldstone North Stand's men's toilets. Your shopping is already bagged up, so away you go.
******* marvellous!!!!

Couple of months ago due to a neck injury I started for the first time ever doing the main shop online …now I’m converted ..no more trips to the superstore for moi

I have to say I'm very disappointed at the rate Luddites are being picked off these days

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It's going to blow your MIND when you find out about contactless payments, and online shopping, via this "internet" thing the kids are all into.

 

[Jack Straw]

It's going to blow your MIND when you find out about contactless payments, and online shopping, via this "internet" thing the kids are all into.

No. I'm steering well clear!

 

[Easy 10]

Been doing it for years, I can't imagine doing it any other way. Shopping already packed and ready to go, without the tedious toil of a belt on the till, no queuing behind some coffin-dodger with a load of crumpled coupons that expired in 2022 and half of them for another store. Or those annoying DILBERTS who temporarily abandon the process to rush off and grab some horseradish. Whats not to like ?

The random spot-checks can be a pain, but I feel oddly SMUG when I'm given the all-clear. I can imagine the thieving scrotes with those unscanned items lurking in their shopping bags must be sweating like Gary Glitter at PC World when Emma starts doing a rummage.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Scan and go trial at Morrisons has ended - we was one of the 6 trial stores but the uptake wasn’t what the company expected it to be so the trial has been abandoned.

 

[LamieRobertson]

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I have to say I'm very disappointed at the rate Luddites are being picked off these days

It’s being a tight git and not wanting to pay for something I can normally do myself

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Been doing it for years, I can't imagine doing it any other way. Shopping already packed and ready to go, without the tedious toil of a belt on the till, no queuing behind some coffin-dodger with a load of crumpled coupons that expired in 2022 and half of them for another store. Or those annoying DILBERTS who temporarily abandon the process to rush off and grab some horseradish. Whats not to like ?

The random spot-checks can be a pain, but I feel oddly SMUG when I'm given the all-clear. I can imagine the thieving scrotes with those unscanned items lurking in their shopping bags must be sweating like Gary Glitter at PC World when Emma starts doing a rummage.

The only thing you get now is when it's busy and Mr Magoo waiting in front of you can only see the busy checkouts nearest to him and has singularly failed to spot the FOUR unused ones down the far end, so stands there with his trolley waiting for the nearest ones to become empty (at which point all their red lights immediately come on so Sandra On Checkouts has to come and swipe through their alcohol or clear the unexpected items in the packing area).

This happened to me yesterday, and after attempting to point the free ones out to him with no response, I gave it a few seconds and then strode casually past him with my trolley and bleeped my shopping into a nice empty checkout while he glared down the aisle at me like I'd just run over his puppy.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The only thing you get now is when it's busy and Mr Magoo waiting in front of you can only see the busy checkouts nearest to him and has singularly failed to spot the FOUR unused ones down the far end, so stands there with his trolley waiting for the nearest ones to become empty (at which point all their red lights immediately come on so Sandra On Checkouts has to come and swipe through their alcohol or clear the unexpected items in the packing area).

This happened to me yesterday, and after attempting to point the free ones out to him with no response, I gave it a few seconds and then strode casually past him with my trolley and bleeped my shopping into a nice empty checkout while he glared down the aisle at me like I'd just run over his puppy.

Bully

You should have taken me to a free one, that's why you got that look.

 

[chip]

Thinly veiled look-at-me-I-shop-at-Waitrose boast. Good work.

Thank you for noticing. I bet you are not averse to shopping there either *emoji. I find Fortnum's online deliveries excellent (would be a better boast)

 

[happypig]

The only thing you get now is when it's busy and Mr Magoo waiting in front of you can only see the busy checkouts nearest to him and has singularly failed to spot the FOUR unused ones down the far end, so stands there with his trolley waiting for the nearest ones to become empty (at which point all their red lights immediately come on so Sandra On Checkouts has to come and swipe through their alcohol or clear the unexpected items in the packing area).

This happened to me yesterday, and after attempting to point the free ones out to him with no response, I gave it a few seconds and then strode casually past him with my trolley and bleeped my shopping into a nice empty checkout while he glared down the aisle at me like I'd just run over his puppy.

Sorry about that, I'd forgotten my spectacles.

 

[TomandJerry]

I'm happier to use a normal check out

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Thank you for noticing. I bet you are not averse to shopping there either *emoji. I find Fortnum's online deliveries excellent (would be a better boast)

A pleasure. Just to be clear, I’m not mocking you…I like a thinly veiled boast.

Yes. I was no stranger to the Church Road branch when I lived in Hove. Amongst many things, a fantastic beer range for a supermarket. Better looking staff as well.

 

[bluenitsuj]

I'm happier to use a normal check out

Yep and keep people in jobs.

 

[GT49er]

The next big step for you Jack is to get your shopping delivered

Not until I actually can't get to the supermarket. I had home delivery through Covid, and although, fair enough, it was a god-send you didn't always get exactly what you wanted, and I'd certainly have chosen the fresh fruit and veg more carefully.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Thank you for noticing. I bet you are not averse to shopping there either *emoji. I find Fortnum's online deliveries excellent (would be a better boast)

Nah he gets his butler to deal with that

 

[Blues Guitarist]

Now the flip side of the coin, as a Store Manager in retail it’s a bloody disaster. Thousands on thousands of pounds of stock stolen through here weekly

What happened to RFID tags. They were supposed to be the way ahead 20 years ago. Are the tags still too expensive?

 

[Chicken Run]

The next big step for you Jack is to get your shopping delivered

Not until I actually can't get to the supermarket. I had home delivery through Covid, and although, fair enough, it was a god-send you didn't always get exactly what you wanted, and I'd certainly have chosen the fresh fruit and veg more carefully

Good points Jack

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My other half does the shopping nowadays, and happily used the app to scan and go, until two weeks ago. He scanned half a dozen items as he went around the store, putting them into his bag.
He went to the scan area to pay the amount showing on his phone app, when a store employee came over to him, as a barcode showed up, saying his shopping had to be checked.
As you actually have to leave the building with the goods to be accused of theft, he said no, emptied the contents of his bag on the scale, and walked out, saying you can them all back.

 

[elwheelio]

My other half does the shopping nowadays, and happily used the app to scan and go, until two weeks ago. He scanned half a dozen items as he went around the store, putting them into his bag.
He went to the scan area to pay the amount showing on his phone app, when a store employee came over to him, as a barcode showed up, saying his shopping had to be checked.
As you actually have to leave the building with the goods to be accused of theft, he said no, emptied the contents of his bag on the scale, and walked out, saying you can them all back.

Was he accused of theft or was this one of the routine checks that staff do?

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Was he accused of theft or was this one of the routine checks that staff do?

They are doing more of these routine checks - and that's all they are. No accusation of theft. We pay £7.99 a month for Tescos Clubcard Plus which gives you 10% off of 2 BIG shops a month (up to £200 a shop - so up to £20 off twice a month). My wife has had to go through these routine checks a few times recently - two of them being BIG shops with an overflowing trolley. Each time the scanning was 100% spot on - but it takes some time to wait while they do it. Inconvenient, but I understand why they're having to do it with the increase in shoplifting these days.